Damour massacre

The Damour massacre occurred on 20 January 1976 when the Palestine Liberation Army, as-Sa'iqa, Fatah, PFLP, DFLP, and the Lebanese National Movement attacked the Maronite town of Damour on the highway south of Beirut, Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War, killing between 150 and 582 civilians. The PLO carried out the attack in response to the Karantina massacre, which had targeted a Muslim slum in Beirut, and the PLO executed 20 Kataeb militants before lining the civilians up against a wall and spraying them with machine gun fire. It was rumored that militiamen from Syria, Jordan, Libya, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and even Japanese PFLP members had taken part in the "offering of a holocaust to Muhammad", as massacre survivor Father Mansour Labaky recounted them saying.